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Word: tapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...followers to an easy victory, 235 to 88. Soon a London woman may be able to stop and look in a shop window in the evening without an indignant prostitute hissing in her ear: "Get the hell off my beat!" On the other hand, she may have a policeman tap her on the shoulder and caution her against loitering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Pushed off the Sidewalk | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...varsity won the tap after Columbia missed a foul shot which would have iced the game, giving Harrington a chance to score his most important points of the evening...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Varsity Five Rallies, Defeats Lions, 80-75, In Overtime Session | 2/7/1959 | See Source »

...well -make his ears and sense of location work for him." He is helped by the fact that table tennis is one of the few sports that make sense being heard and not seen. Medick discovered this in college (Western Reserve) when he learned that the queer tap-tapping in the recreation room was a game; learning the rules. Medick bet a pint of ice cream that he could score the noise without a mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ear on the Ball | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...Diego pump is radically different in many ways. Instead of being plugged into an electric outlet (an explosion hazard in the operating room), it gets its power from the pressure of tap water. This is converted by the reciprocating-engine principle into a pump action, giving pulsatile pressure in four Plexiglas chambers. In each of these is a rubber bladder corresponding to one of the heart's own chambers. The bladders are paired (like the auricles and ventricles) and they contract and expand in a rhythm like the heart's. In an additional chamber, corresponding to the lungs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hydraulic Heart | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...Hingle is somewhat uneven in the title role. But the second half, particularly, forces him to tap depths of which few suspected him even capable. Here, sorely afflicted and afflicted with sores, he stays hunched over on his knees for half an hour. And here he touches greatness; to find a just comparison, one must go all the way back to Lon Chaney Sr.'s title-role performance in the 1922 film version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: More on 'J.B.' | 1/7/1959 | See Source »

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